Lovable Rabbit

Sirs:

I was waiting . . . to hear the 3 a.m. news broadcast the other morning when I turned to page 42 . . . (TIME, Jan. 24) and there he was, peeping from beneath Mr. McGregor's fence just as he was the first time I ever saw him, 35 years ago. News from the battlefronts went by the board while I renewed an all-but-forgotten acquaintanceship. . . .

Those lines--"limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child who ever stole out of bounds to see for himself what was over the horizon"--have the Beatrix Potter touch themselves.

F. E. COUSINS

Portland, Me.

Nisei in Battle

Sirs:

There are a lot of people in these United States who have nothing but a one-track mind. In some of the articles of your Letters to the Editors (TIME, Jan. 17) I saw some of these people in true light.

I just came from Italy where I was assigned to the Japanese 100th Infantry Battalion. I never in my life saw any more of a true American than they are. To these people who don't have any military rank, probably don't even know that these little "yellow-bellies" (as one writer wrote) are saving his skin: I only wish that these people could witness these little "yellow-bellies" fight.

Ask anyone who has seen them in action against the Jerry [to] tell you about them. They'll tell you when they have them on their flanks they are sure of security in that section. . . .

They, my friends, are not the little "yellow-bellies"; you are.

E. D. CHASSE

2nd Lieutenant

Moore General Hospital

Swannanoa, N.C.

Sirs: We are just back from overseas where we were trying to preserve democracy for the very same people who say the Nisei should be deported.

I was bodyguard to an American of Japanese descent who was risking his life to act as an interpreter for us. He was a target for both Jap and American bullets. . . .

I wish to God that some of the people at home who say, "Democracy is for the white race only," could be made to go out and fight for it.

(SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD)

Camp Carson, Colo.

How?

Sirs:

We are both regular and devoted readers of TIME. Our devotion has prompted much curiosity with regard to your article, "Battle of Germany" (TIME, Dec. 6). This article along with several others in months past, has left unexplained your source of news with reference to detailed events in enemy countries.

Such accounts . . . are certainly revealing--very definitely "news behind the news." We hope you can see fit to reveal your method of procuring these accounts. . . .

(T/SGT.) ROBERT M. SEITH

(SGT.) JACK PAYTON

Somewhere in India

P: News trickles out, TIME tries to be on hand with its cup.--ED.

What, Again?

Sirs:

. . . You report the activities of U.S. drys (TIME, Jan 24) who are agitating for a "new national prohibition law--at least for the duration." Isn't that what they said the last time?

On the same page it is indicated that "only a political miracle" will enable U.S. soldiers and sailors to vote in November. What a perfect setup for . . . phony professional drys!

(SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD)

Gulfport, Miss.

Jimmy

Sirs: Thank you for your splendid article on Jimmy Durante (TIME, Jan. 24). In my opinion, it's a dose of the right medicine for wartime readers and did as much for my morale as a whole page of encouraging war news. . . .

NANCY STARR ANDERSON

Rockford, Ill.

Sirs:

[Your] terrific close-up on Jimmy Durante . . . caught the essence of the guy himself. . . .

My only regret is that your writer missed the best Durante line of them all. Jimmy described Jimmy perfectly when he once referred to somebody else as "one of dose dese, dose and democrat guys."

(PFC.) E. C. KOOPS

Pyote, Tex.

Sirs:

Times and TIME are both at a new low when Durante can grace a front cover and commandeer a number of pages otherwise available for worthwhile reporting. Is the paper shortage a myth? . . .

Let's leave Durante, Cantor, Baker and the rest of that interlocking guest "artist" crowd to themselves. . . .

F. S. SMITH

Lawrenceville, N.J.

The Big Secret

Sirs:

TIME, too, missed the boat on the real inside laugh at the jet propulsion "secret" (TIME, Jan. 24). . . .

Group Captain Frank Whittle's jet propulsion patents were published in detail, and thoroughly analyzed, in the January and February 1939, issues of--guess what--Flugsport, the official publication of the German air force.

MAX KARANT

Chicago

P: To able Max Karant, managing editor of Flying, thanks for the last word on what the U.S. Army seemed to regard as a blown-in-the-bottle military secret.-- ED.

The WAC

Sirs:

Re Colonel Hobby: after seeing the picture printed. I think a lot of people are going to want to know "how come?" She has two children younger than my one. . . .

If she can be a WAC colonel and have her daughter with her, why can't I take my place in the ranks of uniformed women? . . .

ADELINE WILLIAMSON

Claremont, Calif.

P: The rule barring mothers of small children from the WACs was made after Mrs. Hobby (and some others) had joined up.--ED.

Sirs:

. . . Your story stated that Mrs. Hobby was a graduate of the University of Texas. This is totally incorrect. Mrs. Hobby has never received any degree whatsoever from this institution. . . . A number of stories appeared in the press after her appointment as head of the WACs, and it was clearly determined at that time that Mrs. Hobby had no earned college degree of any sort. I think she has probably received an honorary degree since she became head of the WACs. . . .

MAX FICHTENBAUM

Assistant Registrar

University of Texas

Austin, Tex.

P: Reader Fichtenbaum is totally right. Mrs. Hobby's first degree, an LL.D., came last year from the Texas State Teachers Colleges Board of Regents.--ED.

Blind Cast

Sirs:

While TIME'S editors would be the last to classify the magazine as an investment counsel medium, I wish to do so. Back in the Dec. 14, 1942 issue I read a short article on Northeast Airlines, Inc., which contained the sentence, "It was growing so fast even its sponsors were dazzled."

"I must buy me a few shares," said I to myself, which I did on Dec. 18, at 4 3/8. Just a year later I sold them at 6 1/2, pocketed my $112.50 profit. . . .

Pass out some more market tips, you nice people.

FREDERICK A. HOLTON

Brookline, Mass.

P: Let Reader Holton get off that banana peel: TIME is no tip sheet.--ED.

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